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A sign of a warm, damp summer. Bullrush flowers on the Compton Park pool developing a green patina from growing algae.

Blackening waxap mushrooms emerge from the ground a vivid orange / yellowish colour, and then turn black (surprise). Look out for them growing in short grass – these were on the lawn of a local dentist.

Bee very busy collecting pollen, even though it looks like her pollen sacs must already be full to bursting.

The delicate flowers of meadowsweet, often found growing by water. These flowers and unopened buds were on plants growing by the canal at Newbridge, and by the pool at Compton Park.

Holly blue butterfly on leaves of an ivy growing on the wall by Castle Walk, Bridgnorth, in the warm morning sunshine yesterday.

I don’t know if it’s because of the places I go, but it seems that I usually see this butterfly around ivy, rather than the tree which gives it its name.

Flowers on stickweed plants, tiny even in close-up pictures.